Small Wonders: Peptides for Disease Control

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Preface 1. Immunomodulatory Cationic Peptide Therapeutics: A New Paradigm in Infection and Immunity Neeloffer Mookherjee, Leola N. Y. Chow, and Robert E. W. Hancock 2. Structure/Function Link Between Cytokine Domains and Natural and Designed Lytic Peptides: Medical Promise Jesse M. Jaynes and Gregory C. Bernard 3. The Potential of Frog Skin Antimicrobial Peptides for Development into Therapeutically Valuable Anti-Infective Agents J. M. Conlon 4. Obstacles and Solutions to the Use of Cationic Antimicrobial Peptides in the Treatment of Cancer Ashley L. Hilchie, Melanie R. Power Coombs, and David W. Hoskin 5. Lytic Peptides as Anticancer Therapeutics: Lessons Learned from a Novel Design Approach Clayton Yates, Timothy Turner, and Jesse M. Jaynes 6. Strategies for Designing Peptide Immunogens To Elicit ?-Helical Conformation-Specific Antibodies Reactive with Native Proteins Zhe Yan, Wendy J. Hartsock, Zhaohui Qian, Kathryn V. Holmes, and Robert S. Hodges 7. Defensins in Viral Infection Rachna Shah and Theresa L. Chang 8. GENOPEP, a Topical Cream in the Treatment of Burn Wounds Jesse M. Jaynes and V. Siva Rami Reddy 9. Developing Influenza Antigen Microarrays for Seroprofiling Yu M. Foong and Mahesh Uttamchandani 10. pH-Directed Self-Assembling Helical Peptide Conformation J. Vincent Edwards, Alfred D. French, Thomas Jacks, and K. Rajasekaran 11. Controlling Symbiotic Microbes with Antimicrobial Peptides Peter Mergaert and Eva Kondorosi 12. Antimicrobial Peptides for Plant Disease Control. From Discovery to Application Emilio Montesinos, Esther Badosa, Jordi Cabrefiga, Marta Planas, Lidia Feliu, and Eduard Bardaji 13. Antimicrobial Peptides as a Promising Alternative for Plant Disease Protection B. Lopez-Garcia, B. San Segundo, and M. Coca 14. Strategies for Controlling Plant Diseases and Mycotoxin Contamination Using Antimicrobial Synthetic Peptides K. Rajasekaran, J. W. Cary, C. A. Chlan, J. M. Jaynes, and D. Bhatnagar 15. Antifungal Plant Defensins: Structure-Activity Relationships, Modes of Action, and Biotech Applications Uma Shankar Sagaram, Jagdeep Kaur, and Dilip Shah 16. Antifungal Peptides: Exploiting Non-Lytic Mechanisms and Cell Penetration Properties Jose F. Marcos, Monica Gandia, Eleonora Harries, Lourdes Carmona, and Alberto Munoz 17. Thionin Antifungal Peptide Synthesis in Transgenic Barley Jianming Fu, Minesh Patel, Anna Maria Nuutila, and Ron Skadsen 18. Expression of Designed Antimicrobial Peptides in Theobroma cacao L. Trees Reduces Leaf Necrosis Caused by Phytophthora spp. Luis C. Mejia, Mark J. Guiltinan, Zi Shi, Lena Landherr, and Siela N. Maximova 19. Antimicrobial Peptides for Fire Blight Control V. Sarojini 20. Thionins - Nature's Weapons of Mass Protection Svetlana Oard, Jong Hyun Ham, and Marc Alan Cohn 21. Transgenic Expression of Antimicrobial Peptides in Plants: Strategies for Enhanced Disease Resistance, Improved Productivity, and Production of Therapeutics Dmytro P. Yevtushenko and Santosh Misra Editors' Biographies Indexes